RSS and Web Feed

What is RSS actually ?

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_Feed

In other words RSS ...
1. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
2. RSS allows you to syndicate your site content.
3. RSS defines an easy way to share and view headline and content.
4. RSS file can be automatically updated.
5. RSS is written in XML

Why Use RSS ?

• Without RSS, users will have to check sites daily for new update information. This maybe to consuming for many users. With an RSS Feed. They can check sites faster using a RSS agregator.
• Since RSS data is small and fast loading, it can easily be used with services like cellphone or PDA.

After read these explanation about RSS, then what the purpose of my final project since there are many cellphone supported RSS Reader ?
1. Using common RSS reader tool embedded in your cellphone probably one of solutions to get new information from many sites (RSS support). Mobbuzz give you another answer because the RSS update process doesn't go in the client side but in the server side, at least your cellphone doesn't have to do a lot things to get new infomation just log in to mobbuzz application and new RSS that you had registered will be send to your cellphone.
2. Want to share RSS to other user ? well, using mobbuz you can do it simply. Only cost for data access (not regular tariff for sms) so it's cheaper than regular sms.
3. Labeling your RSS using Mobbuzz feature : RSS category, so you could devide your RSS based into topics : "Music", "News", "Life Style" etc...
4. More futher, the goverment could use this for distributing information. They can build portal supported RSS and people can subscribe it's RSS URL.

5, 6, 7 .... give your opinion. OK.

What is MoBBuzZ ?

Mobile RSS Push adalah mobile application yang di desain untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengguna mobile device tehadap akses sumber berita secara aktual. Dengan memanfaatkan RSS Feeds yang dimiliki oleh suatu konten dan teknologi GPRS maka artikel atau berita dari konten tersebut dapat kita dapatkan dengan biaya yang rendah. Mengadopsi dari Google Reader , Mobile RSS Push adalah sebuah RSS Reader, berbeda dengan RSS Reader yang terdapat pada mobile devices pada umumya, pengolahan RSS tidak dilakukan pada sisi client atau embedded pada mobile devices itu sendiri melainkan pengolahan RSS dilakukan di sisi server.

RSS feeds yang telah didaftarkan oleh client akan disimpan oleh server, kemudian dengan menggunakan schedular, server melakukan update berita atau artikel. Mobile RSS Push juga memanfaatkan protokol Jabber untuk menangani lalu lintas pertukaran data antara client dan server. Jabber sendiri adalah sebuah protokol XML yang terbuka untuk pertukaran message dan presence yang real-time antara user di dalam jaringan Jabber. Jabber menungkinkan kita untuk membuat sebuah messaging service sendiri pada sisi server yang kemudian dikoneksikan dengan Jabber client dengan Java ME pada sisi client.